How to Draw a Chili Pepper

Chili peppers have a basic shape.

A chili pepper is a small, narrow, tubular vegetable that frequently curves at the tip and it has a small green stem accenting its top. The foundation of a chili pepper is a basic shape. Depending on the variety and age of a pepper, it may have smooth or wrinkled skin. After you draw the basic shape of the subject, the most critical step is shading to indicate roundness and texture, if any.

Things You'll Need

• Paper
• Pencil or marker

Instructions

1. Draw a slightly uneven line that curves toward the end.

2. Draw a very narrow rounded tip at the end of the pepper that will be the end. Round the other end of the line and draw a short line that essentially runs perpendicular to the longer line off which you are working.

3. Connect the tip and the short perpendicular line. Draw the line to resemble the other long line you already drew to form the body of the chili pepper.

4. Draw a curved line at the broad end of the pepper. Position the line so that it forms a slightly round shape at the top of the pepper. Draw a smaller round shape in this top section of the pepper. Run one side of this smaller shape along the edge of the pepper.

5. Add a little dash in the center of the circles. Position the dash so that the long sides face the top and bottom of the pepper. Draw two short lines perpendicular to the dash. Begin each line at the ends of the dash. Extend them beyond the top of the pepper. Curve the lines at the very end so that they meet in a point. This is one section of the stem.

6. Draw a shape that mirrors the first part of the stem. Position it in the opposite direction so that the sections meet in two touching points. Both sections should curve slightly. Their combined shape should resemble a distorted hourglass. Add some faint, short lines in the middle of both sections to indicate ridges in the stem.

7. Shade the pepper around the edges to indicate roundness. Add tiny crescent shapes of shading throughout the body of the pepper to indicate texture, if desired.

References

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